{"id":1000312,"date":"2006-12-13T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T13:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/2006\/12\/13\/igniting-the-burning-crusade\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T05:53:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T10:53:12","slug":"igniting-the-burning-crusade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/videogames\/2006\/12\/13\/igniting-the-burning-crusade\/","title":{"rendered":"Igniting the Burning Crusade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since last week&#8217;s Warcraft patch I&#8217;ve noticed a few significant changes here and there in Azeroth that foreshadow the Burning Crusade. Among them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Draenei ambassador has showed up in The Hinterlands seeking audience with the Wildhammers. He&#8217;s giving quests.\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1000313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/rualeth.jpg\" alt=\"Ambassador Rualeth\" width='525' height='590'\/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li>There&#8217;s a Blood Elf in Nethergarde Keep, though his quest is too high level for me to tell why he&#8217;s there.\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1000314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/ardalan.jpg\" alt=\"Ambassador Ardalan\" width='639' height='744'\/><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s less buff than a Night Elf so maybe the <a href=\"http:\/\/gaygamer.net\/index.php?id=1632\">rumors<\/a> about Blizzard butching up the Blood Elves are false. <\/li>\n<li>Several map areas have been unlocked including the Eversong Woods and the Ghostlands in the Eastern Kingdoms, and Azuremyst Isle and Bloodmyst Isle west of Kalimdor. Exodar is the Dranei city. I haven&#8217;t tried to actually reach any of those areas yet. By the map the Draenei should be pretty easily able to sail to Auberdine and follow the usual Night Elf paths through Azeroth. The Blood Elves are going to have to go south through the Plaguelands after level 20 or so, which seems excessively challenging to say the least. Mayhaps the goblins will open another blimp stop. <\/li>\n<li>The Outland map is unlocked, though there&#8217;s not a lot of detail yet.<\/li>\n<li>\nThere&#8217;s a jewel crafting recipe for sale in the Stormwind General Goods store in the trade district.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What else have people seen? I haven&#8217;t played Horde since the patch. Anything happening over there? (No spoilers if you&#8217;re playing the beta, though, please.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since last week&#8217;s Warcraft patch I&#8217;ve noticed a few significant changes here and there in Azeroth that foreshadow the Burning Crusade. Among them: A Draenei ambassador has showed up in The Hinterlands seeking audience with the Wildhammers. He&#8217;s giving quests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003065,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000312\/revisions\/1003065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}